{"id":85514,"date":"2016-03-31T18:11:08","date_gmt":"2016-03-31T18:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/warc.org.uk\/?page_id=85514"},"modified":"2016-06-13T17:07:20","modified_gmt":"2016-06-13T17:07:20","slug":"a-135mhz-to-4-4ghz-signal-generator","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/warc.org.uk\/?page_id=85514","title":{"rendered":"A 34 Mhz to 4.4Ghz signal generator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is an open source &#8220;starter&#8221; project conceived by Steve M0MOI with the objective of creating a wide ranging signal source which can be put together using off the shelf modules and only a small amount of soldering. This project is based around a cheap and readily available ADF4351 development board.<\/p>\n<p>It is requested that anyone adding to this project or improving features or functions also make their material open source to all club members.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_85525\" style=\"width: 246px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/warc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_0734.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-85525\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-85525\" class=\" wp-image-85525\" src=\"https:\/\/warc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_0734-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Startup Screen\" width=\"236\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/warc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_0734-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/warc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_0734-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/warc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_0734-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/warc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_0734-1150x1533.jpg 1150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 236px) 100vw, 236px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-85525\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Startup Screen<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The soldering is mainly confined to the use of a rotary encoder to navigate the menus.<\/p>\n<p>The whole device runs from a usb cable which also serves as a means to update and change the internal program (which is non-volatile). The device will run from 34Mhz to 4.4Ghz and has two outputs. One for a continuous rf output the other will output Morse identifiers including call sign(C\/S)\u00a0 and maidenhead locator (LOC).<\/p>\n<p>The other menu options are frequency (F) and output level (LVL).<\/p>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-85514 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/warc.org.uk\/?attachment_id=85527'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/warc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_0733-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-85527\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-85527'>\n\t\t\t\tScreen showing 2300Mhz and F< Selected\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/warc.org.uk\/?attachment_id=85530'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/warc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_0735-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-85530\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-85530'>\n\t\t\t\tShowing Callsign Selected\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/warc.org.uk\/?attachment_id=85532'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/warc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_0736-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-85532\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-85532'>\n\t\t\t\tShowing Locator Selected\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>The main rotary encoder is used, amongst other things, to increase\/decrease frequency and increase\/decrease level etc.<\/p>\n<p>Upon startup pressing the rotary encoder button will cycle through the options one by one and the chosen option is marked by a single chevron &lt; to the right of each option thus F&lt; means the frequency can be adjusted by the rotary encoder etc. So F&lt;, C&lt;, L&lt;, and O&lt; for output level are all valid.<\/p>\n<p>A description of the project and software are to be found here:- <a href=\"https:\/\/warc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Signal-Generator.pdf\" rel=\"\">Signal Generator<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The inter board wiring diagram can be found here:- <a href=\"https:\/\/warc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/ADF-4351-Sch.pdf\" rel=\"\">ADF-4351-Sch<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Further information on wiring etc is only available to club members.<\/p>\n<p>Edited by Vincent M0LCR<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an open source &#8220;starter&#8221; project conceived by Steve M0MOI with the objective of creating a wide ranging signal source which can be put together using off the shelf modules and only a small amount of soldering. This project is based around a cheap and readily available ADF4351 development\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/warc.org.uk\/?page_id=85514\">Continue reading<i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":71,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-85514","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/warc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/85514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/warc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/warc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85514"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/warc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/85514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86453,"href":"https:\/\/warc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/85514\/revisions\/86453"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/71"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/warc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}